The economy is rough right now. Everyone is looking to save a buck here or there. I would like to share with you how my wife and I save between 20 – 100 dollars a month depending on your bill. My wife and I never had a TV subscription when we first got married due to being broke as a joke. Now we don’t need or ever want a TV subscription. Here is why

Nothing is EVER on. You’ve been there. Sitting down, flicking between shows. You spend maybe 5 – 10 minutes cycling through 200 channels and somehow nothing is on. You finally find something but it is the end of the show, am I right? Then the search begins all over again. Before you know it, two hours has gone by and you haven’t really watched a full episode of anything. So you’re paying between 40 – 120 dollars a month for the dish, or cable just so that you can work around the networks schedules? That’s not the world we live in anymore. AND THE COMMERCIALS! Think about it for a moment. You’re paying 40 – 120 dollars a month to watch TV and you STILL have to watch 10 minutes of commercials for every 20 minutes of show time? Lets not forget all the hidden state fees, box fees, satellite fees, etc. Think about it.

Streaming is The Future of Home Entertainment. My wife and I have a online subscription to Netflix & Hulu. Netflix is more for the movie side of things where as Hulu is more for the TV side of things. My wife and I watch all of our favorite shows on our schedule. For 9 bucks for Netflix & 8 bucks for Hulu, we get significantly more content than anyone with a dish or cable has. And we can watch all these shows “on demand”. Doesn’t matter if we are at work, on the road, at home, if you have a device that can connect to the internet, it can connect to these two services. The main downside is we can’t watch anything live, but here was the biggest revelation for us: We were never home or remembered to watch ANYTHING live.

Kids can use the technology. I know a 3 year old who knows how to get on netflix, look up Thomas the Tank engine and watch episode after episode it. This will be how our children watch entertainment in the future.

But what about Football? Baseball? Local News!? National News! Get a 25 dollar digital antenna and you should be able to get all the local channels if you just have to hear the local news while your cooking dinner or getting ready in the morning. This will also fix the sports problems as well. As for national news, all the major networks, Foxnews.com, CNN.com, Msnbc.com provide video segments of their shows from that day on their website. A special tip of my hat to MSNBC.com because they will actually put the ENTIRE show on the web broken up in segments. The other networks haven’t jumped on board to this just yet. They also only show 1 commercial every few clips and its usually a self advertising one.

Join the future and save money while you can. One of the reasons its so cheap right now is because all the big networks and studios aren’t sold on streaming yet. They are still stuck in their broadcast on TV ways. As more and more people join up (I joined Hulu the day it opened, when it was still free, but gladly pay 8 bucks a month for all the content) you can expect a price increase at some point. Netflix recently raised all its prices and got some major fallout from consumers for it. It is still pretty cheap right now. So dive in! Make it work! If you’re trying to save some money or saving toward a goal, this is an excellent lifestyle change. This coming from a guy who grew up on cable tv all my life. I’ll never look back!

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